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Lessing’s “Emilia Galotti” As Directorial Debut In Bremen

Posted by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | 9th Sep 2025 | Directing, Germany, Review

At German theatres, some assistant directors are employed for the duration of a production, from...

I Hold On To The Beautiful Side Of Theatre

Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 27th Aug 2025 | Directing, Interview, Macedonia

Interview with theatre director Tamara Stojanoska, Skopje/Prilep, R.N. Macedonia. Interviewer...

“The Gilded Age” Season 3 Casting Secrets

Posted by Alexander Fatouros | 6th Jul 2025 | Directing, Interview, Los Angeles, New York, News, Theatre and Film, United States of America

Step into the opulent 1880s New York evoked by The Gilded Age, Julian Fellowes’ Emmy-winning HBO...

Pandora`s Ritual: To “Kill My Darlings” On The Brink Of An Individual Existential Revolution

Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 2nd Jun 2025 | Directing, Greece, Interview

An interview with Wichi, a theatre director and actor, Athens, Greece Wichi was born in...

Brave New Theatrical World or One Flew Over the 21st Century’s Cuckoo’s Nest?: “Nexxt”

Posted by Emilija Kvočka | 18th Mar 2025 | Directing, Review, Serbia

The theatrical kamikaze that destroys all the mechanisms of the world and itself—that is, theatre...

An Innovative “Romeo E Giulietta” In Milan

Posted by Margaret Rose | 10th Mar 2025 | Directing, Italy, Review

In February I caught Antonio Syxty’s staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan’s...

Getting Known

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Feb 2025 | Directing, Review, United States of America

Beckett Briefs is a great title for a program of short plays by Ireland’s most famously laconic...

From Lawyer to Lyricist/Librettist: An Artist Profile of Jill Ohayon

Posted by Morgan Skolnik | 7th Feb 2025 | China, Directing, Musical Theatre, United States of America, Worldwide

Jill Ohayon grew up believing there were only two respectable career paths: doctor or lawyer. And...

“No Power for the Electric Chair ” – Crime of Theatrical Absurd

Posted by Emilija Kvočka | 16th Dec 2024 | Directing, Macedonia, Review

“Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest...

“1981” directed by Tomi Janežič at Novi Sad Theatre

Posted by Emilija Kvočka | 30th Oct 2024 | Acting, Directing, Review, Serbia

When the premiere performance of the play 1981, directed by Tomi Janežič, began at the Novi Sad...

Liu Xiaoyi’s Creative Revolution

Posted by Molly Grogan Zolima CityMag | 19th Jun 2024 | Directing, Hong Kong, Interview, Singapore

Liu Xiaoyi is a man on a mission. His juice is an imagined world where artists are in the driver’s...

Netherworld or Right Now?

Posted by Marcina Zaccaria | 17th Jun 2024 | Directing, New York, Review, United States of America

Staged in the round with fewer than 25 people in a white box that feels like a gallery space, The...

Igor Vuk Torbica (1987 – 2020) – Balkan “Prince of Theatre” – The third Igor’s Days

Posted by Emilija Kvočka | 13th May 2024 | Directing, Macedonia, Review, Serbia

He lived for 33 years, and then he left us. He had his first professional direction in the...

“Brother-Brother” by Cheta Igbokwe: A Quest for Long Lives Leads to Quick Deaths

Posted by Ugochukwu Anad! | 30th Mar 2024 | Directing, Nigeria, Review

Nigerian playwright, Cheta Igbokwe, is a prolific young writer. This I find amazing, especially...

“ANGELA (a Strange Loop)”: The Wild and Wonderful World of Susanne Kennedy

Posted by Maria Delgado | 22nd Mar 2024 | Directing, Review, Spain

Susanne Kennedy doesn’t do things by half. When she creates a world, it has its own logic, its own...

Phillip Luswata: A Career Onstage and Behind the Scene

Posted by Kaggwa Andrew Mayiga | 4th Feb 2024 | Directing, Essay, Uganda

Phillip Luswata – “the one from Uganda” The first time I learned about Phillip Luswata was on a black and white TV. Then, he was a guest on the South African evening daily soap, Egoli: Place of Gold. His cameo had received such...

Leonard Okware: 39 Years Behind the Lights

Posted by Kaggwa Andrew Mayiga | 29th Oct 2023 | Directing, Essay, Uganda

Leonard Okware has been making theatre companies at the national theatre in Uganda look good for the past 39 years. Theatre lighting design has a major influence on setting the tone and mood of any theatre production. It is what...